Heroes, Action, & Adventure!
I’m E.M. Linden, a sci-fi/fantasy writer that loves to tell stories about epic heroes and action-packed adventures. This is your home for reading my web fiction and keeping up with my various projects.
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Mar 2024 Book Recommendation: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Read more: Mar 2024 Book Recommendation: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirIf you’re a regular reader of book blogs or viewer of bookstagram or booktok posts, this probably isn’t the first time you’ve heard of an Ember in the Ashes. It’s easily one of the most popular YA fantasy series of the 2010s. Despite this, I actually only started to read it a couple of years…
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My Writing Process
Read more: My Writing ProcessIntro Happy March, and welcome to this month’s writing post! This time, I’m going to be talking about my personal writing process. And I’ll emphasize the my personal part, too; everyone works differently, and this is one of those things where there really is no one-size-fits-all method. So, if you’re here hoping to get ideas…
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Feb 2024 Book Recommendation: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Read more: Feb 2024 Book Recommendation: Cinder by Marissa MeyerI’m going to go right out and say it: The Lunar Chronicles is probably one of my favorite series of all time, even years after reading it for the first time. It’s packed with action, humor, drama, and romance, and the whole cast of characters—and it gets to be a pretty big cast, after a…
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Flash Fiction: Technical Difficulties
Read more: Flash Fiction: Technical DifficultiesIntro Today, we’ve got a new fantasy flash fiction, written by yours truly. This was so much fun to write, and I’m excited to share it with you. So, if you’re in for a short little fantasy battle featuring an orc inventor with a giant gun saving a fey warrior, read on! Technical Difficulties by…
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Jan 2024 Book Recommendation: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Read more: Jan 2024 Book Recommendation: Steelheart by Brandon SandersonHello, and welcome to our first ever book recommendations article! From here on out, one of these will be posted on the blog every month, each featuring a book chosen by yours truly. Some of these titles will be very well-known current bestsellers, while others might be a bit more obscure or a little less…
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Introduction
Read more: IntroductionI’ve been writing stories for as long as I can remember, from short picture books about the family pets, to comics featuring my own original superhero team, to full-length novels about various sorts of fantasy elves. (I’ve still got a weird thing with elves, as those of you who have read my web fiction probably…
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New on Patreon: Xieraine Prologue
Read more: New on Patreon: Xieraine PrologueHappy November everyone! New on my Patreon today is a special behind-the-scenes post featuring the prologue of an old (and currently abandoned) side project of mine. While the whole project may never be finished, I’m proud of what I had written, and I’m excited to share it with you! Check it out now or subscribe…
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New Artwork for Night Hunter!
Read more: New Artwork for Night Hunter!Continuing my project of making artwork for the older flashfics that I posted, today I finished the one for Night Hunter, a fantasy/action fic about Vesper, a vengeful hunter stalking the monster that slaughtered everyone in his home village. If you haven’t read it yet, you can check it out now through the link above!…
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New on Patreon: Aaethrien Vs. Notthaggar Deleted Scene (The Shadow Spawn)
Read more: New on Patreon: Aaethrien Vs. Notthaggar Deleted Scene (The Shadow Spawn)New today on my Patreon is a special post containing a deleted scene from the very first draft of Shadow Spawn, the story that I posted as a serial on my other website, theshadowspawn.com. The scene is available to read for everyone in my Official Patron tier, so be sure to check it out if…
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New Artwork for the Path Forward!
Read more: New Artwork for the Path Forward!The Path Forward, one of the first flashfics that I posted, has been updated with new artwork that can now be seen in the place of the old placeholder image I had before. I’ll be updating the images of all the older flashfics over the next month or so as I finish drawing them, so…
